My cousin is enterested in airplanes and i want to learn somthing about them since he only talks about it.?

Question

How to planes stay aloft?

If you were to pursue an aviation career, what science subjects would you study and why? And can you tell me somthing about the science of flight?

Or other info thanks cause i do not know anything about airplanes i went on a few websights but that didn't help me out.

Answer 1

I am going to repeat an answer about aircraft in general I gave to another asker a few days ago. Perhaps you can glean some info that will help you converse with your cousin:

Being a pilot is not scary, its thrilling. The single most important control, arguably, would probably be the stick/yoke (steering wheel). This piece of equipment controls two of the three axes that the airplane can move around that is: pitch (moving the nose of the aircraft up or down) and roll (turning the wings to the left or the right). The other axis, yaw (turning the nose left or right), is accomplished by the rudder pedals. Of course you have the throttle(s) that control engine power and so on. All your instruments either aid you in navigation or aircraft systems monitoring.

The plane was invented slowly by a number of people over the years who experimented with differing designs. The Wright Brothers were given the largest share of the credit as they probably made the first successful powered flight in 1903. Their design had some unique features and incorporated some things that others had experimented with. As far as the kinds of aircraft, they are innumerable and far too many to list here.

There are lots of parts to a plane. The fuselage is the body of the plane where the pilot/passengers/cargo sit. The wings are obvious. The tail or empennage consists of the vertical fin with the rudder attached behind it, the horizontal stabilizer, and the elevator attached to that. The wings provide lift and have control surfaces that either bank (help turn) the plane called ailerons. Most aircraft also have flaps on the inboard portion of the wing that extends the airfoil to ease takeoffs and landings. The vertical fin stabilizes the aircraft and keeps it from rolling unneccessarily. the rudder behind it yaws the aircraft to the left or right. The elevator pushes the tail up or down which of course would have the corresponding opposite effect on the nose.

Also, have a look at :

www.aopa.org/learntofly/

www.beapilot.com

Aviation toys/pilot supplies:

www.sportys.com

Answer 2

http://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/

Answer 3

well anyone can jsut go to they're local small airport and they prolly will b able to recieve pilots sertficate. but u cant fly commercially with that, but in genersal jsut study a lot of math and phisics.

Answer 4

Four forces of flight help a plane stay aloft (weight drag lift and thrust) There is a law called   Bernoulli's principle....which basically means In fluid dynamics, Bernoulli's principle states that for an inviscid flow, an increase in the speed of the fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid's gravitational (causes lift)

You'd probably want to take anything that has to do with engineering....